Week of January 9:
My diversity has to deal with multiple news accounts that reference Climate Change and Donald Trump. Two things that obviously don't go together according to the Washington Post and CNN. I am going to pin Climate Change as a belief. Some people think it is real while others don't, but it is a bit disturbing when the leader of a country that controls quite a bit of Global Issues and Regulations fails to even consider the subject. Climate Change enthusiasts are worried that Trump will back track on all of the progress that has been made to combat climate change for the sole reason that he does not believe it is real.
Week of January 16:
The diversity issue I was faced with this week is not personal, but was observed. As you know, on the 20th of January Donald Trump was sworn in to office. This piece of history has sprung up many diversity issues, including race, ideology, and even moral beliefs. I have witnessed myself some of the protests and the riots that have been going on. By observing things like this I notice the judgment and the anger that takes over the people of this nation just because people do not believe in what they believe in.
Week of January 23:
The diversity issue I was faced with this week is the difference in how some mothers raise their children. Coming from a big family, I am surrounded by children and mothers. Some mothers are more strict, some are more relaxed. Some mothers will let any one hold their babies, but others want you to wash your hands. My cousin makes her children clean up their toys or else she throws them in the trash. My sister cleans up after my niece every second of the day. This is not right or wrong, this is choice. Just like many other diversity issues.
Week of January 30:
This week, especially since we had been reading Real Women Have Curves, I have been focusing on body image. I go to the gym three times a week because I, unfortunately, was one of the ones that gained the Freshman 50 at the beginning of the semester. While I'm at the gym there are all sorts of body types surrounding me. There are women that are skinnier than I am, there are women who are bigger than I am as well, but I still think they both look better than me. But there is a reason we are all at the same place striving for the same thing, right? Because we want to look the way we want to look. It is not about the times when people tell me I don't need to lose weight, or my BMI calculator tells me I'm 15 pounds over weight. It is about when I look in the mirror what would make me happy to see (within reachable limits). We are all shaped differently. Our bodies are proportioned differently. There are women that are considered "fat", but seriously can not lose anymore weight because of the type of body they were born with. It is refreshing sometimes to look around you and see how different you are compared to everyone else, and realize that they are many different types of beautiful.
Week of February 6:
Priorities. That is a diversity issue. I have a specific example really close to my life. My boyfriend and I are two completely different people. I prioritize my school work first and foremost, but he prioritizes his hopes of becoming an entrepreneur. He does not go to college, nor does he have a real job. He is "self-employed". To me, that is crazy. I am someone who likes stability and enjoys my minimum wage job at Sonic to get me through college. I prioritize my grades, my job, and my schedule. He, on the other hand, does not have a set schedule and does not know what he is going to be doing for the rest of his life, or even tomorrow. But does that make him less of a person? No, it does not. We all have different goals in mind for our lives, but that is what makes the world go round. We don't need every person doing the same exact thing.
Week of February 13:
The diversity issue I will be highlighting this week actually has nothing to do with me at all, but I believe that it is important. The Huffington Post covered a story on a fashion show featuring models in Hijabs, although this is not an issue to me and it shouldn't be an issue to anyone else it has sprung up some tension and judgement. The reason for this tension is because people are scared of things that are unfamiliar to them. These women are beautiful, and are in no way a threat to security yet the piece of cloth that they have on their head sends off a warning signal to some of the people that have watched this fashion show. Especially with Donald Trumps immigration ban, there has been more pressure. I think what this fashion show did was wonderful. They wanted to portray the message of beauty on all fronts, but some just can not take it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/immigrant-fashion-show_us_58a459b8e4b0ab2d2b1ad916?utm_hp_ref=diversity
Week of February 20:
As superficial as this sounds I am going to talk about the diversity issue when it comes to have people approach getting to know people and seeing if they are interested. I just went through a breakup in which I had been in a relationship with this person for 6 years, so it has been a while since I have been on the market therefore I am not sure how to talk to boys very well. My room mate has never been in a relationship, so we are both confused. She likes the shy approach, but I am a bit pushy. I am trying to mold to a happy medium. But it is obvious that different people have different tastes in what they look for in a significant other. I would rather have someone that finds my nice assertiveness attractive instead of unsettling. If they find it unsettling, I do not want to be with them. It is not worth it. You never change for any one. The diversity issue that this addresses is the idea of difference in attraction and difference in execution of communication. Every person in the world has different tastes when it comes to who they see has an attraction.
Week of February 27:
Westminster High School students were standing up for an issue that has been a prominent component of this last election. These students put up posters celebrating the diversity that is present in all parts of this country with words that said "We The People: Defend Dignity" which explicitly confronts the notion that the people from other cultures in this country are losing their dignity. President Trump may have something to do with this which is why the school made the posters come down, but were they meant to be political or was it an act of expression? Expression in school has always been an issue you hear about in the news, but by them forcing these poster be taken down is the administration kneeling down to the level of the reason these posters were put up in the first place? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/school-pro-diversity-posters-trump_us_58ac87b9e4b0e784faa21446?utm_hp_ref=diversity
Week of March 13:
This article I read is titled "The lack of diversity on television will drive young to Isis", but after reading it and composing my post I realized that although this topic is interesting it is related to a much larger topic. The idea that children are influenced by what they see on the television. It is true. I still use some phrases and quotes from television shows I used to watch when I was little, but how big is the actual issue? The big topic that comes to mind right now is the topic of homosexuality. As we know, the new Beauty and The Beast just came out in theaters. At the end, there are two male characters dancing with each other, no not kissing, but dancing and parents are refusing to take their children to see this movie. I believe the children should be exposed to things like that because it is slowly becoming the norm. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/02/riz-ahmed-warns-lack-of-diversity-on-tv-will-drive-young-to-isis
Week of March 27:
I recently wrote a paper in my Global Issues class about human rights, but it quickly turned into a paper that was more about women's rights. I argued why the two were not the same thing. Women fight a whole different fight, in a different arena. Women worry about reproductive rights and safety all over the world. I spoke to a couple of my friends about this paper, many of which are republican, and they asked me what I was fighting for? If you have to ask this question then you are the oppressor. A women makes on average makes 20% less in annual salary then her male counterpart, for doing the same job. The women in other countries are often times forced into marriage and child bearing. This is a diversity issue because although women have climbed the latter and are actually quite different, a problem still remains.
Week of April 3:
My diversity post for this week is an interesting, yet partially offensive one. Recently my friends and I were watching Criminal Minds. In Criminal Minds there is a particularly attractive person of color. I commented on how attractive this man was, and one of my friends goes "but he's black". I was taken aback. I was confused, and kind of hurt. See, the difference between her and I is that I grew up in a family that doesn't see color. I grew up never seeing the difference between me and my African American counterpart. She, on the other hand, also commented that "her parents would kill her if she ever brought a black boy home". This issue of diversity has to deal with racism, but also with the way that people raise their children. I understand the difference in attraction, but the idea of your parents being able to influence a person that you could love is mind boggling to me. It is 2017 and people still look down upon interracial relationships.
Week of April 10:
This morning I was faced with a difficult question. While we were discussing current events in my International Affairs class, I was asked what I think about the use of bombs in areas such as these, or in general. Now this is a diversity issue. There are people that are strongly against war of any kind, but there are others who like it because they feel protected. Like most things, I am somewhere in the middle. I do not believe that people deserve to live in a country that could be bombed at any time because of a group of people that may or may not have anything to do with their day to day lives. But I also believe that in this country, at the state that it is in and has been in, the United States believes it is the policeman of the world, therefore when one of our own is harmed we strike back. But were the choices we made too much? That is for each individual to interpret on their own. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/asia/moab-mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan.html?_r=0
My diversity has to deal with multiple news accounts that reference Climate Change and Donald Trump. Two things that obviously don't go together according to the Washington Post and CNN. I am going to pin Climate Change as a belief. Some people think it is real while others don't, but it is a bit disturbing when the leader of a country that controls quite a bit of Global Issues and Regulations fails to even consider the subject. Climate Change enthusiasts are worried that Trump will back track on all of the progress that has been made to combat climate change for the sole reason that he does not believe it is real.
Week of January 16:
The diversity issue I was faced with this week is not personal, but was observed. As you know, on the 20th of January Donald Trump was sworn in to office. This piece of history has sprung up many diversity issues, including race, ideology, and even moral beliefs. I have witnessed myself some of the protests and the riots that have been going on. By observing things like this I notice the judgment and the anger that takes over the people of this nation just because people do not believe in what they believe in.
Week of January 23:
The diversity issue I was faced with this week is the difference in how some mothers raise their children. Coming from a big family, I am surrounded by children and mothers. Some mothers are more strict, some are more relaxed. Some mothers will let any one hold their babies, but others want you to wash your hands. My cousin makes her children clean up their toys or else she throws them in the trash. My sister cleans up after my niece every second of the day. This is not right or wrong, this is choice. Just like many other diversity issues.
Week of January 30:
This week, especially since we had been reading Real Women Have Curves, I have been focusing on body image. I go to the gym three times a week because I, unfortunately, was one of the ones that gained the Freshman 50 at the beginning of the semester. While I'm at the gym there are all sorts of body types surrounding me. There are women that are skinnier than I am, there are women who are bigger than I am as well, but I still think they both look better than me. But there is a reason we are all at the same place striving for the same thing, right? Because we want to look the way we want to look. It is not about the times when people tell me I don't need to lose weight, or my BMI calculator tells me I'm 15 pounds over weight. It is about when I look in the mirror what would make me happy to see (within reachable limits). We are all shaped differently. Our bodies are proportioned differently. There are women that are considered "fat", but seriously can not lose anymore weight because of the type of body they were born with. It is refreshing sometimes to look around you and see how different you are compared to everyone else, and realize that they are many different types of beautiful.
Week of February 6:
Priorities. That is a diversity issue. I have a specific example really close to my life. My boyfriend and I are two completely different people. I prioritize my school work first and foremost, but he prioritizes his hopes of becoming an entrepreneur. He does not go to college, nor does he have a real job. He is "self-employed". To me, that is crazy. I am someone who likes stability and enjoys my minimum wage job at Sonic to get me through college. I prioritize my grades, my job, and my schedule. He, on the other hand, does not have a set schedule and does not know what he is going to be doing for the rest of his life, or even tomorrow. But does that make him less of a person? No, it does not. We all have different goals in mind for our lives, but that is what makes the world go round. We don't need every person doing the same exact thing.
Week of February 13:
The diversity issue I will be highlighting this week actually has nothing to do with me at all, but I believe that it is important. The Huffington Post covered a story on a fashion show featuring models in Hijabs, although this is not an issue to me and it shouldn't be an issue to anyone else it has sprung up some tension and judgement. The reason for this tension is because people are scared of things that are unfamiliar to them. These women are beautiful, and are in no way a threat to security yet the piece of cloth that they have on their head sends off a warning signal to some of the people that have watched this fashion show. Especially with Donald Trumps immigration ban, there has been more pressure. I think what this fashion show did was wonderful. They wanted to portray the message of beauty on all fronts, but some just can not take it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/immigrant-fashion-show_us_58a459b8e4b0ab2d2b1ad916?utm_hp_ref=diversity
Week of February 20:
As superficial as this sounds I am going to talk about the diversity issue when it comes to have people approach getting to know people and seeing if they are interested. I just went through a breakup in which I had been in a relationship with this person for 6 years, so it has been a while since I have been on the market therefore I am not sure how to talk to boys very well. My room mate has never been in a relationship, so we are both confused. She likes the shy approach, but I am a bit pushy. I am trying to mold to a happy medium. But it is obvious that different people have different tastes in what they look for in a significant other. I would rather have someone that finds my nice assertiveness attractive instead of unsettling. If they find it unsettling, I do not want to be with them. It is not worth it. You never change for any one. The diversity issue that this addresses is the idea of difference in attraction and difference in execution of communication. Every person in the world has different tastes when it comes to who they see has an attraction.
Week of February 27:
Westminster High School students were standing up for an issue that has been a prominent component of this last election. These students put up posters celebrating the diversity that is present in all parts of this country with words that said "We The People: Defend Dignity" which explicitly confronts the notion that the people from other cultures in this country are losing their dignity. President Trump may have something to do with this which is why the school made the posters come down, but were they meant to be political or was it an act of expression? Expression in school has always been an issue you hear about in the news, but by them forcing these poster be taken down is the administration kneeling down to the level of the reason these posters were put up in the first place?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/school-pro-diversity-posters-trump_us_58ac87b9e4b0e784faa21446?utm_hp_ref=diversity
Week of March 13:
This article I read is titled "The lack of diversity on television will drive young to Isis", but after reading it and composing my post I realized that although this topic is interesting it is related to a much larger topic. The idea that children are influenced by what they see on the television. It is true. I still use some phrases and quotes from television shows I used to watch when I was little, but how big is the actual issue? The big topic that comes to mind right now is the topic of homosexuality. As we know, the new Beauty and The Beast just came out in theaters. At the end, there are two male characters dancing with each other, no not kissing, but dancing and parents are refusing to take their children to see this movie. I believe the children should be exposed to things like that because it is slowly becoming the norm.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/02/riz-ahmed-warns-lack-of-diversity-on-tv-will-drive-young-to-isis
Week of March 20:
In my Intro to Global Politics class we are discussing human rights and human security. It is a very broad topic, but in this particular article the problem with "what is a human rights violation?" and "can other countries really have a say in other countries human rights issues?" This is related to diversity because human rights in other countries is often affiliated with religion and culture. Should there be a universal law when it comes to the terms of human rights? Or will this be seen as a way to interfere with other cultures and religions?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-declines-to-join-letter-criticizing-china-on-human-rights/2017/03/22/12abd260-0f44-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_story.html?utm_term=.4ac84f34b260
Week of March 27:
I recently wrote a paper in my Global Issues class about human rights, but it quickly turned into a paper that was more about women's rights. I argued why the two were not the same thing. Women fight a whole different fight, in a different arena. Women worry about reproductive rights and safety all over the world. I spoke to a couple of my friends about this paper, many of which are republican, and they asked me what I was fighting for? If you have to ask this question then you are the oppressor. A women makes on average makes 20% less in annual salary then her male counterpart, for doing the same job. The women in other countries are often times forced into marriage and child bearing. This is a diversity issue because although women have climbed the latter and are actually quite different, a problem still remains.
Week of April 3:
My diversity post for this week is an interesting, yet partially offensive one. Recently my friends and I were watching Criminal Minds. In Criminal Minds there is a particularly attractive person of color. I commented on how attractive this man was, and one of my friends goes "but he's black". I was taken aback. I was confused, and kind of hurt. See, the difference between her and I is that I grew up in a family that doesn't see color. I grew up never seeing the difference between me and my African American counterpart. She, on the other hand, also commented that "her parents would kill her if she ever brought a black boy home". This issue of diversity has to deal with racism, but also with the way that people raise their children. I understand the difference in attraction, but the idea of your parents being able to influence a person that you could love is mind boggling to me. It is 2017 and people still look down upon interracial relationships.
Week of April 10:
This morning I was faced with a difficult question. While we were discussing current events in my International Affairs class, I was asked what I think about the use of bombs in areas such as these, or in general. Now this is a diversity issue. There are people that are strongly against war of any kind, but there are others who like it because they feel protected. Like most things, I am somewhere in the middle. I do not believe that people deserve to live in a country that could be bombed at any time because of a group of people that may or may not have anything to do with their day to day lives. But I also believe that in this country, at the state that it is in and has been in, the United States believes it is the policeman of the world, therefore when one of our own is harmed we strike back. But were the choices we made too much? That is for each individual to interpret on their own.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/asia/moab-mother-of-all-bombs-afghanistan.html?_r=0
Week of April 17: